Show f A HAMMOND KILLED lAST NIGHT One of Prominent and Videly Known Citizens Meets Death in ina ina a Runaway t hammond Is 10 dead was the tho or on the th to toda da after the receipt of oC i a to th De Deret ret Nors giving tho lie IngA The Intelligence thus thull ht out such strong of US as to tell U beyond question or of orthe the great hold hod that Francis A lIam n fl rd nel had hael on the hearts or of the people the news newa caine that ho he had Tn m t I death In 10 nn accident the reeling feeling of oC End ad u II ss 30 as a deepened first telegram Willi the dIspatch to the theNIs I NIs N We UtAh Nov telegram fr rn th the death C f resident F A hammond Inter Intern n nt nt at Huntsville Utah A little later Inter the me mesge sage tram from ManS cr to Ire Lorenzo Snow Tae ae given glnn out It conveyed the that death occurred on Tues Tuesday day cia II and Ind that It was tl LI The dispatch said F A hammond k killed III ell In 1 a runaway at N M J Will for tor itU remains to Huntsville Thursday m In huntsville Weber county Is the old horn or of President Hammond and there members ot of his hIe family are bur burIed burled led It Is s probable his lii remains will I pass through this city on Friday morn mornIng lag Ing and ond that the lurty will vIII be joined herc b by relatives and anel friends who will nd the funeral der hammond was president ot of the Juan Junn Stake ot of ZIon was on his around the tho Stake lit at the time ot of othi hi his death Mrs ot of the Eleventh or of this city Is a sister or of Mrs and says that It was the In or of Prest Hammond and wife to come coins to Bait Lake for weeks at atthe atthe the close of oC th the Journey through the take Stake Fr some years past Elder BIder Hammond has not been In the best or of health but buthis buthis his indomitable will and anel determined energy kept him cIa so at work All his lire life he has hns been In the foremost rank or of workers for COI the welfare of oC the I lorile ople with Ith whom tio ho was associated lie leaves a family th the children mostly growt up One Olle ot of hIs daughters Is a school teacher at Santaquin Utah Most or of the oth other r m members tre Me In southeast southeastern urn ern where he has made his home for tor years farll past The following Ii h or of his life lICe was obtained from 1 Elder leler Andrew Andre J Jenson ot of the Church Historians o office I hammond was 1 a son or of O C and Charity Edwards Hammond lie Ho was born bori at count county Long Island New York December 31 11 1611 16 lie He went vent to 10 sea whon fourteen years old and spent four Cour years sailing along the coasts of oC his native country At the age of oC eighteen he engaged In longer voyages durIng which he visited parts of the world including South America In 1843 1813 on his second long lanK voyage onge he doubled the Cape ot of Good hope and anel sailed nearly around the worl world he landed on the Sandwich Islands In 1St 1881 having been s severely verelY hur hurt on the voyage There hero he engaged In business and spent three years after which lie he went to California Here he became acquaint acquainted td ed wIth lh the from Crom the Eastern Stats who had Just landed from the from Cram them he learned the or of the Gospel as restored through Joseph Smith and became 1 a beler he wal was baptIzed hy Elder Patch In San Francisco De December December cember 31 31 1847 When the gold ld excItement broke out he went to the diggings on the Sacra acra mento river where he became no ao Quaint sith Ith the members or of the Mor Jor Jormon mon who ho discovered gold in CalifornIa after spendIng about twenty y days at the th ii h starl started for Jor Great Salt Lk Lake aley with the first pack or of who whoever whoever ever olO the dr from CalifornIa to the Great Salt The te company arrived In Sal Salt City In Son Soon aCer after 11 his arrival In his Ie val valI I Icy y married Mil Miu Mary IRry Jane Jalle who wa was til the first school teacher In the valey valley With his hll young oung wife Ie hf he located In the luth sOUth al ad addition dlton of the old Dort the next year ear 1813 Sj when the people out onto their city lots lo 10 In the ward subsequently he settled in lug Ig i In he wal was 11 on a mission to the hawaiIan Islands responding wi will willIngly I to this rai call he Arrhe arrIved once mor more moreIn In beautiful HawaI hawaii In or of that year ear accompanIed by his ramly family 11 Ills milion mission was wa prolonged tl till 17 i durIng durin these six years ean of oC le life hil his temporary home most or of the tm time WA was wasat at on the where ho he engaged In shoemaking and his wife 11 taught schol school for tor native children Sev chIldren were born to them while on that mission When the tho Island or of Lanai wa was l as ns as a place for tor the Hawaiian Saints J ler Hammond WI was selected to take immediate charge of oC the migration thither and ami the location of oC the Sainta In the beautiful valley aley ot of where the Saints buit built 1 a lt lit littie tie town ton enl 1 the City of oC Joseph On his return hOIt home from that milion mission El EI Elder Iler der Hammond and Camly family spent seine time In San Bernardino Southern Cal Call which lit at that time was n a st set or of the tho Saints Boon after his return to Utah the 1 so called Buchanan war broke out a and 11 l Elder lder hammond took In an active part al as asa a captain or of ten In defending the moun thIn paS pass known ns as Echo Canyon In 1889 to counsel from Cram Young he located In Ogden Weber county for the pur purpose purpose pose of establishing n a talner tannery lie He was engaged In business tre thiro until 1864 when he together with the IntI late George wal ns called on another mission to the SandwIch Islands where he In behalf behal or of the Church purchased the lAde Ile plantation on the Island of Oahu which ever since has hns blen been the hawaiian ml mission lon headquarters and the gather lag Ing place for tor the native Saints who have luwe desired to gather there From this mission Elder Hammond returned to Utah Ulah In ISa 1866 and wal was soon n afterwards calle called to take charge or of the tho little settlement ot of Huntsville In Os Og Ogden den en Vale Valley which had just n found Cound lit wise Ind energetic mn man management e the place Bon soon grew to a of oC import ano and It sus organized as a award award ward Elder Hammond became the first hI hi acted In that capacity from 1877 to 1885 when he WI was called to pre ore sile side over oyer this the San Juan JUlin Stake or of Zion lie modI his home at Bluff ut on the San SanJuan SanJuan Juan le river In Sn San Juan Junn county Utah Frol From lint time until the da day of oC hil his death he was indefatigable In his labors among the Saints In that part or of the Lords vineyard and anel when many younger men would naturally shirk from Cram the task he would bravo brav the storms and anel chi chilly of oC the desert In making his regular visits to 10 the dif different ferent wards In the Stake over which hI he presided The San Juan Stake Is 10 the smallest or of ni all the Stakes or of Zion now organized but the settlements or of the Saints there thero Ire are vet very much scattered situated B as the theIr theare nah Cob Colo Ir are In three Stats nalI namely rado and New Mexico A short time ago I Elder Hammond changed his residence to Moab Ora Grand nIl county During Durin his lifetime Ilder Elder hammond has hns held several Important civil chU n as wel well as positions among which were ere that or of 1 a member or of the Constitutional Convention In 1818 and also probate judge jude for Cor San SanJuan SanJuan Juan county under tinder Territorial rule |